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It is a long awaited trip to the Pacific Northwest for a look at Portland Wrestling from October 11, 1980!

- An extended appreciation of Playboy Buddy Rose, the king of PNW

- A quick rundown of the Portland territory, how they were unique and the stars they produced

- Why the play by play guy would have died watching 1996 WCW

- Jonathan Boyd’s motivations for facing Buddy Rose

- Why a Jay Youngblood promo telegraphs what will happen on the next big show

- The thankfully brief run of Mike Popovitch

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Things get Extreme at Wrestlepalooza 97 on this edition of ECW Hardcore TV from June 12, 1997!

- The final battle between Raven and Tommy Dreamer, culminating a two and a half year war

- Jerry Lawler invades the ECW Arena, talks some trash, directs traffic

- How I saw Taz for the first time and why it explains why I love the character

- Deciphering if a Sabu botch is an actual botch

- Finding common ground with the woman who was Chastity

- Rick Rude the color man: the uncool kid who made up stories in high school

- Trying to figure out the motivations of Shane Douglas’ “Franchise” character

- Paul Heyman’s broken promise (one of them!)

Plus:

- Why the counters to the “Van Terminator” spot don’t work as well as you would think

- Worrying about the state of Jake Roberts watching the Raven-Dreamer match as his legendary finisher gets spammed to hell

- Making a retroactive choice between the ECW Arena show and the local team in the Stanley Cup Final on TV

- Uncensored audio with copious amounts of cursing

- Life on the unemployment line

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It’s a special one match edition of NWA Worldwide from October 3, 1987 as Ron Garvin challenges Ric Flair for the NWA World title in Detroit!

- A brief history of how this incarnation of the Flair-Garvin rivalry came to be

- Where Garvin ranks among Ric Flair’s greatest opponents

- Ranking the best possible contenders for the world title in this spot

- Can David Crockett be trusted to call a 30+ minute Ron Garvin match alone?

- Callback spots in Ric Flair title matches

- The NWA’s battle for the city of Detroit: too little, too late?

- Tony Schiavone haunts the match

Plus:

- Peter visits London, England: thoughts on the national anthem, Abbey Road, the British Museum, the Prime Meridian, Westminster Abbey's bathroom, and punking a Yankees fan

- YouTube Comment Theater!

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The very fate of the wrestling business is at stake on this edition of WCW Worldwide from February 26, 1994!

- Terra Ryzing (Triple H) faces Brian Armstrong (Road Dogg) sowing some seeds

- Newly hired Bobby Heenan as a comedy machine

- Sting as a longer term “draw”

- Figuring out the timeline for Missy Hyatt’s departure from WCW

- Determining a course of action for Ray Traylor to make him like the Big Bossman and still not infringe on WWF trademarks

- Modern day Steve Austin and his reversion to his WCW gimmick

- Why the Nasty Boys are like a chain restaurant

- Rick Rude goes bland while Marcus Bagwell gives 100%

- Johnny B. Badd’s odd choice for a new trainer

Plus:

- The Heenan/Okerlund ’93 All American Reunion working in product placements

- An update on the host and his future endeavors

- Deciding on the best Cranberries song

- Gary Cappetta lets fly with a regional accent

- Wondering where Brian Armstrong got his jacket

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The heat is on approaching SummerSlam 89 with a look at WWF Wrestling Challenge from August 27, 1989!

- Breaking down the Rick Rude confrontation with Roddy Piper from Prime Time Wrestling

- Tito Santana’s forgotten shining moment of 1989

- A mild defense of the Brain Busters vs Hart Foundation booking at SummerSlam 89

- Explaining the motive for every illogical Ted DiBiase money decision

- The Rougeaus Theme Song Challenge

- SummerSlam main eventers play one upsmanship with nutty promos

- The Garvin-Valentine feud: salvation for both

- What makes for a good promo from Zeus?

- Theorizing reasons for the real origin of the Ultimate Warrior/Rick Rude feud

- Correct usage of "The"

Plus:

- A heavily redacted reaction to game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final

- The trouble with “performance” golf shirts

- Rick Rude possibly reveals his sexual proclivities?

- Comparing Dusty Rhodes with an 80s TV icon

- Original commercials, Right Guard and their cursed athlete endorsers, and so many ads for trucking companies

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We’re walking in Memphis again this week with look at the April 18, 1981 edition of Memphis Wrestling!

- Amidst a tense atmosphere, Jerry Lawler takes on Terry Funk in an empty Mid-South Coliseum

- Jimmy Hart takes to the ring to beat up little peiople

- Dutch Mantel stands up for his country

- The Dream Machine: a different kind of Akeem

- David Oswald’s biggest claim to fame in Memphis Wrestling

- Kevin Sullivan’s Boston accent as a necessary ingredient to this podcast

Plus:

- A word now considered a slur casually dropped in a promo

- How bad is traffic in Memphis?

- A brief history of the construction of I-40 in the Memphis area

- YouTube Comment Theater!

- Sports moments of 2019 (so far): The Saints get robbed, an incredible catch and double play, and Tiger’s return to glory

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In the year 2000….there was a leftover episode of WWF Sunday Night HeAT from 1999 airing January 2, 2000!

- Having issues with remembering 1999 WWF storylines, and having the memory jogged with a “best of” montage

- Gushing with praise for D’Lo Brown, doing double duty

- A tag team match fit for Canadian television

- Taking umbrage with wrestlers doing things that make no sense

- Grandmaster Sexay and Mosh battle to settle the debate of hip hop versus heavy metal

- Reviews from the place that the Godfather may have gotten his “ho’s”

- Viscera: big men never go out of style

- What Gangrel demands of the blood he uses

Plus:

- A Triple H appearance in a toy ad leads to more confusion

- The problem with eating at a branded place like WWF New York

- Billy Gunn’s use of the DX catchphrase

- The return of YouTube Comment Theater!

- Sports moments of 2018: Vladdy Junior, Tuukka loses a blade, a very long baseball game, JR Smith forgets the score, and the Philly Special

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After a six month hiatus, The Adams Division podcast is back! Steve Bennett (The Sports-Casters) and Peter Winson (Greetings From Allentown) reunite to discuss their 10 favorite single season sports teams of all time! Part one will cover numbers 6-10 on their respective lists. Included are teams that won it all, lost in heartbreaking fashion, and the friends that were made along the way!

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It ain’t Allentown, but Hamburg, Pennsylvania will have to do as this week features a look at WWF All Star Wrestling from May 17, 1980!

- Bob Backlund vs El Olympico in a bizarre “exhibition of wrestling holds” as VINCE MCMAHON delights in scientific wrestling

- The future problem Larry Z would have coming out of the Bruno feud

- Ken Patera as a God among men in 1980 even beyond the WWF

- Hulk Hogan being better in ’80 than remembered even as the promotion would prefer people forget his main feud that year

- Lots of Bruno Sammartino commentary: on Mexican wrestling, arrogant heels, fat people, Larry Z and more!

- Tor Kamata and his comical real name

- Steve King and the same name game

- 1980 Wrestler kneepad watch

Plus:

- One wiseacre in Hamburg has some advice for Backlund and Olympico

- Autograph seekers at the TV tapings and their fascination with job guys

- Sitcoms that did exactly 117 episodes

- Hulk Hogan: golfer?

- Sports moments of 2017: A first in Major League Baseball, 10 home runs in one game, and an obsession with the final play of regulation from Super Bowl 51

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For episode 116 it is back to Jim Crockett Promotions for a look at how “hot” the territory was for NWA Pro from February 21, 1987!

- How literally everybody won because Jim Cornette threw a fireball at Ronnie Garvin

- Jimmy Garvin’s face turn being perfectly timed and executed

- The Midnight Express as a championship hockey team

- Dick Murdoch colludes with the Russians

- Johnny Weaver waxes incoherent on commentary, while Nikita Koloff is somehow eloquent

- The Horsemen come up with funny things to call their “associate” Lex Luger

- JCP’s attempt to run shows in Canada in February 1987

Plus:

- Comparing and contrasting the crowd at a Judas Priest concert in 2019 with that of a wrestling show

- The importance of local promos

- How they covered the Cornette/Garvin angle and the old Saturday Night Live skit it brings to mind

- The return of YouTube Comment Theater!

- Sports moments of 2016: Britton never gets in the game, a Korean folk hero, the Cubbies as the anti-Orioles, an obese man hits a home run, and the Boston Bruins blow it against Ottawa

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